On this side of the Atlantic, the symbols ( or ) are properly called
parenthesis not brackets. Consider the expression parenthetical expression,
which means something enclosed in parentheses.
John
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> On Dec 15, 2015, at 12:23 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Clint Bowman <cl...@ecy.wa.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Martin,
>>
>> I grew up in the Midwest of the United States--about as native English
>> speaker as you could find. I was taught exactly the same as you have
>> learned.
>
> As with your experience, Clint and Martin, but my online experience is that
> those speaking "English English" often refer to "(" as "brackets". As a
> result I generally now call them square-brackets to avoid ambiguity.
>
> --
> David.
>
>>
>> Clint
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>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [............]
>>>
>>>> You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot()
>>>> command. Just finish with a ')'
>>>
>>> Hmm... I once learned
>>>
>>> '()' =: parenthesis/es
>>> '[]' =: bracket(s)
>>> '{}' =: brace(s)
>>>
>>> Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) /
>>> teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three
>>> symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be
>>> really really helpful, if we could agree on using the same
>>> precise English here.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three
>>> different simple English words, if possible.
>>> (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round
>>> parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra adjective.)
>>>
>>> Thank you, well versed English (or "American") learned readers
>>> of R-help, for wise guidance on this ...
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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> David Winsemius
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